Heart-shaped Speed Pills Seized At Mexican Border

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February 22, 1997

EL PASO, TEXAS — A new form of speed - small, pink, heart-shaped pills - was discovered Friday in a drug seizure in the border town of El Paso, officials said. A U.S. Customs Service spokesman said police found hundreds of thousands of the pink pills inside a car during a search on the bridge that crosses the border from Ciudad Juarez in Mexico to El Paso. The pills were found inside the car's dashboard by a drug-sniffing dog. Police arrested the car's driver, a Mexican citizen, and chemical tests later identified the pills as amphetamines, more commonly known as speed.